since the evolution of public administration as an academic and scientific discipline, different competitive approaches have come forward in this area. public administration as a profession, a scientific field and a political process; or, public administration as an area totally distinguished from business management; and legal, political and administrative approaches towards public administrat...

Public health management is a pillar of public health practice. Only through effective management can research, theory, and scientific innovation be translated into successful public health action. With this in mind, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed an innovative program called Improving Public Health Management for Action (IMPACT) which aims to address th...

abstract background and purpose: work-related musculoskeletal disorders (wmsds) are a group of painful disorders of muscles, tendons, and nerves. carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, thoracic outlet syndrome, and tension neck syndrome are examples. almost all work requires the use of the arms and hands, therefore, most wmsd affect the hands, wrists, elbows, neck, and shoulders. the aim of the cu...

The focus of this study was to analyse the diffusion and challenges of “ICT-induced atypical work”. The term atypical has no value judgement. It covers all the new work forms, different from the classical work pattern of the full time male job, during the whole working life with the same employer at the same place. This classical work pattern is the basis of current labour legis lation, social ...

For a utopian thinker, involving the public to bring about change is critical. For a messianic utopian artist such as Vasily Kandinsky, no issue was more central to his work. This essay argues that Kandinsky’s movement away from conventional easel painting to its construction as a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, was intended to provoke the general public to turn away from complacency. A ...

Misrahi, et al. (1) describe the updated federal laws and response plans for handling SARS and related communi-cable diseases. Federal authority is important to control the interstate and international movement of persons who are potentially infectious, but most isolation and quarantine orders will be performed by state and local officials, using state and local law. We discuss how existing law...

Using data for welfare recipients who left the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program during 1996 in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), Ohio, the authors compare the determinants of labor market outcomes across three classes of housing assistance: those who receive a certificate or voucher, those who reside in a traditional public housing project, and those who reside in a Section 8 housing ...